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which would thus be nearly 15,000 years old? Fortunately we can reply in the
affirmative.
The »almond*formed» flint implements which have been found in those parts
of our country, where people first could settle, are of exactly the same type
as the flint implements from the Solutré*Period in France, which is coincident
to the period when the ice first disappeared in South Sweden.
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The people who immigrated to the north, after the end of the
Glacial Period, cannot be called Teutons, but they were the forefa»
thers of the Teutonic (Nordic) race. At this remote age, when our forefathers
first began to settle in Sweden, probably there was not much dissimilarity between
the tribes, who wandered about in different parts of Central and Southern Europé.
During the many thousand years, which have elapsed since our forefathers
came here and lived separated from the other inhabitants of our part of the world,
they by degrees, through a natural differentiation, became Teutons, in the same
way as the inhabitants of Western Europé became Celts, and those who lived
in Eastern Europé became Slavs.
About 2,000 years B. C., the home of the Teutons was only Sweden, Norway,
Denmark, and the most Northerly part of Germany, between the Oder and the
Rhine, as is shown in the map Fig. 1. This is apparent from the faet, that within
that region the welbexecuted and tasteful stone implements, which are charac*
teristic of the Teutons are common; in other parts of Europé, those types are
very rare, or entirely absent. Afterwards, the Teutons spread more and more on
the continent, so that the whole of the present Northern Germany became Teu*
tonic, but the Southern part was Gallie. The countries south of the Main, as
well as France, were in possession of the Gauls, who belonged to the great
Celtic race.
It is generally known that the conditions in Germany and France became
considerably changed by the great migrations, which caused the fall of the Roman
Empire.
The short^headed people who, seven* or eight thousand years before our
time, appeared in Europé, penetrated to the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean,
so that the longdieaded race remained comparatively unblended only in two
distriets very far apart: one of these distriets was south«western France, and the
other the Scandinavian countries.
Right up to the present time the dolichocephalic race on the Scandinavian
peninsula remained almost pure.
The dolichocephalic people who remained in South*western France, after the
penetration of the brachycephalic race into Europé, has been blended with these
long time ago, and therefore the Scandinavian peoples are the purest of the now
living descendants of the Cro*Magnon race, who inhabited Central Europé at the
end of the last Glacial Period.
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